Newbie taking a chance on West Texas

hey ben gunn.. are you originally from Midland? do you enjoy living there? I was just curious because I am relocating there this weekend for a oil hauling job

 

No we moved here two years ago from Orlando, FL. Midland is a nice town. We have most of the chain stores and restaurants everyone else has. The one thing that takes some getting used to is the lack of recreation. Aside from restaurants and movies, everything else worth doing is at least three hours away. We go to San Antonio on occasion and lately we've been exploring some of the small towns around far west Texas. Fort Davis is nice and Marfa is on our list for next time. Keep in mind that time off is hard to come by, so you don't haves many opportunities to lament the lack of recreational opportunities.

 

Ok thanks for the lowdown. I was just wondering if its a safe town. I might get stuck on night shift and will have to leave my girlfriend at home at nights.

 

I found rigdata to be a month or more behind on wyoming's rigs. Problem with any outside based data base, is how often is it updated?

 

Yes verizon is crap here from one ny'er to another im out of the ashland area with nabors lots of companies hiring signs all over 83 north going up from laredo.

 

Like any other town, there are good and bad areas. Overall I would say it's a pretty safe town. We live in an apartment complex near the major retail areas. I am very comfortable leaving my wife and young son at home while I work.

 

I had verizon while in San Angelo. It would get spotty to zero reception in places, but worked fine in most areas around there. Others had AT&T... they didnt seem to be any better. A lot of guys used West Central Wireless... a Texas owned cell provider...they all claimed that it had the best signal. I never tried it.

 

Are you hauling water or condensate with Nabors?

 

Thanks for all the info so far guys. I'm looking to make about $2k a week or #### close to it, though I don't mind running my butt off for it. I know it's likely up in ND, but is a salary such as this still likely down in TX?

 

West Central Wireless works pretty good .. BUT when it gets out of network depends on AT-T mostly (its the first network that gets jumped on anyways)
As of Oilfield reception, for WCW from Big Lake to Rankin = no reception , and most of the road from big lake to Stanton up 137 no reception as well, or very shaddy.
Basically you are looking a a black zone between 137 and 349 and 67 and I20 (give or take).

And between big spring and Lamesa on 87 you'd be right under a dadgum tower and have no signal... border at&t 4g zone, not pushing enough to fall back to 3g and not catching anything else..


for the $2k / week , it might be possible but for crude or water it turns more around $1.5 at most, - to the best of my knowledge.